Janis Stapleton
| Artist Name: | Janis Stapleton |
| Main Focus: | Painting |
| Usual Style: | Semi-Abstract |
| Usual Medium: | Acrylic |
| State: | New South Wales |
| Exhibits Art: | Yes |
| Online Sales: | Yes |
| Tuition: | No |
| Commissions: | Yes |
Background
Janis Stapleton is a Sydney-based, contemporary Australian landscape painter who has been exhibiting extensively in Sydney galleries and exhibitions for the past 35 years.
Artist Statement
‘Painting Country- the Spirit of Landscape’
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[J Stapleton Rankin]
I have a passion for the landscape and landscape painting. I feel ‘enlivened and connected’ to the ‘energy and spirit’ of the places I paint. The paintings become more than what I physically ‘see’.
To the landscape I bring my own marks, my colours and my ‘energy’ and passion. The act of creation brings life to a painting and over the course of a series of related works momentum and insight carry me through the work involved creating and completing the artwork. The physical work of building up a surface, multi layering of paint and marks and the ‘resolution phase’.
I have been fortunate in my life to have been able to experience much of the vast and beautiful wilderness in this country. The landscapes of Kakadu and recently Arnhem Land in NT, the Kimberley and Pilbara. Cape York, the Gulf Country, Winton and western QLD. The vast expanse of the Lake Eyre basin following flooding. Closer to home, the landscapes inspired by the stunning Coast Walk/ Bundeena and the Hacking River south of Sydney.
Much of my recent work has been centred on my series of ‘billabong paintings’. These billabongs are scattered across the landscape of northern Australia and have great significance to the aboriginal people.
I have been ever inspired by the great landscape artists of this country who have proceeded me and their struggle to relate their visual experience and inward perceptions of the landscape into a visual form. The beauty, lyricism and visual poetry of John Olsen. The spatial dynamic, calligraphic simplicity and marks of Fred Williams. The vibrancy and passion for his subject in Arthur Boyd’s river landscapes.
Janis Stapleton 2021
Exhibitions:
Janis exhibits regularly at various art shows in city and regional NSW and Victoria. Sorrento, Yea, Portland, Oakhill College, Bright, Tea Gardens, Melbourne, Camberwell, Box Hill, The Kings School, Hills Grammar, Mount Waverley.
Commercial Gallery Exhibitions
1986 Geo Styles Gallery, Sydney
1993 Sylvania Galleries, Sydney (Solo)
1996 Sylvania Galleries, Sydney
1997 Sylvania Galleries, Sydney
2000 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (Community Gallery) ‘New Visions’
2001 Sylvania Galleries, Sydney
2003 Berkelouw, Paddington (Solo artist) ‘Jan Stapleton New Works’
2003 Ewart Gallery, Willoughby Sydney ‘Doodle’
2004 Michael Commerford Gallery, Sydney ‘Five Ways’
2005 Woollahra Times Gallery, ‘Blooms’
2006 Articles Fine Art Gallery, Stanwell Park ‘Anniversary Exhibition’
2006 ‘Art2Muse’ at ‘Simmer on the Bay’, Walsh Bay Sydney
2007 Woollahra Times Gallery, ‘Images of the Goddess’
2007 Saints Gallery, Sans Souci, ‘Visions of the Landscape’
2008 Moulton Galleries Mosman/Glen St Theatre, ‘Seven of the Best’
2008 Aarwun Gallery Canberra, ‘Winter Exhibition’
2010 Gallery Oscar, Turramurra, Sydney, ‘Pre Easter Show’
2010 Woollahra Times Art Gallery, ‘Australian Landscape’
2010 Moulton Galleries Mosman, ‘The Talented Trio’
2010 Woollahra Times ( Fellia Melas) Gallery, ‘Spring Sydney’
2011 Gallery Oscar, Sydney, ‘Group Exhibition 2011’
2011 Fellia Melas Gallery Woollahra, ‘Works on Paper’
2011 Aarwun Gallery Canberra, ‘Spring Exhibition’, three person show
2012 Aarwun Gallery Canberra, Solo Show
2012 Fellia Melas Gallery Woollahra, Christmas Exhibition
2013 Gallery Oscar Group Exhibition
2013 Fellia Melas Gallery Woollahra, Gallery Artist Spring Exhibition
2014 Aarwun Gallery Canberra, Winter Exhibition, two person show
2014 Moulton Galleries Mosman, two person show
2016 Moulton Galleries Mosman, three person show
2018 Moulton Galleries Mosman
Selective Exhibition - Includes Regional Gallery shows
2000 ‘Southern Sydney Artists’ Exhibition Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
(HRG)
2001 ‘Southern Exposure I: ‘Centenary of Federation’, HRG
2001 ‘Waverly Art Prize 2001’ Exhibition
2001 ‘Hazelhurst Art Award’ Art on Paper Exhibition, HRG
2002 ‘Southern Exposure II’; ‘The Royal National Park’, HRG
2003 ‘Southern Exposure III: ‘Food for Thought’, HRG
2005 ‘Southern Exposure IV: ‘God’s Own Country’, HRG
2009 Camberwell Art Show, Victoria
2009 Central Coast Festival of Arts
2009 Feature artist Oakhill College Art Show
2010 Feature artist Wollongong- ‘Centacare art Show’
2010 Feature artist ‘Oatley Uniting Church’ Exhibition
Galleries:
Moulton Gallery Mosman
Aarwun Gallery
Fellia Melas Gallery
Awards & Achievements Include:
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2021 Featured Artist of the Week at Moulton Galleries
2011 Henry Lawson Festival Grenfell: Winner best painting in show.
Awarded the bronze statuette 'The Drover's Wife'
2009 Contemporary Art Award, Central Coast Festival of the Arts
PUBLICATIONS
Max Germaine ‘Australian Artists and Galleries’, 1990 edition (ref p 643 ‘Ian’ Stapleton)
Various Exhibition Catalogues
SPECIAL INTEREST
Art study tours galleries and museums
- Paris 2001, 2008
- Italy 2001Greece and Turkey archaeological sites 2005
- London 2006
- New York 2017
- Nice 2017
- Spain & Scandinavia 2018
- Germany & Lyon /France 2019
- Japan 2018, 2019
Professional artist representative Exhibitions Committee, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery from 2000 to 2008
Remote area travel Australia;
- Kakadu NT, 2003
- Alice Springs/Ayres Rock/Kings Canyon NT, 2004
- Kimberley WA 2007
- Cape York QLD 2009, 2016
- Pilbara WA 2010
- Lake Eyre 2010 and 2012
- Western QLD and Gulf country 2012
- Arnhem Land NT 2021
- Lake Eyre 2010 and 2012
- Aerial Photography and land trips Maree, Birdsville after flooding.